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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
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The summer drop in female employment
Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022
employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …
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Female labor supply and child care in France
Choné, Philippe; Le Blanc, David; Robert-Bobée, Isabelle - 2003
We use French household data to estimate a structural model of female labor supply and use of paid child care outside the home. Child care costs are found to have little impact on the labor market participation decision of mothers. The model is used to study various policy issues. The influence...
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Three family policies to reconcile fertility and labor supply
Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - 2014
In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare....
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Early child care and labor supply of lower-SES mothers : a randomized controlled Trial
Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2022
-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …-time employment is largely driven by increased care hours provided by child care centers and fathers. Overall, the treatment …
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Equity and efficiency of childcare subsidies : a dynamic structural approach
Koll, David; Sachs, Dominik; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; … - 2023
We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket”. We analyze the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and the income tax within the German context, using a dynamic structural...
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Quantifying Okun’s leaky bucket : the case of progressive childcare subsidies
Koll, David; Sachs, Dominik; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; … - 2024
We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket” to compare the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model...
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Taxing childcare : effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2012 - This version: March, 2012
supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany …
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment …-protected maternity leave and with currently zero hours of work from the target group, we estimate even larger effects on employment and …-term effects of the reform on both employment and hours of work. …
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Beliefs about maternal labor supply
Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Kaufmann, Katja; Rauh, … - 2022
This paper provides representative evidence on the perceived returns to maternal labor supply. We design a novel survey to elicit subjective expectations, and show that a mother's decision to work is perceived to have sizable impacts on child skills, family outcomes, and the future labor market...
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